Download or read book Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Organizational Learning written by Naveed Akhtar and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of organizational learning has been the area of attention for academicians, practitioners, and researchers for decades. Organizational developments as a subject realized the significance of cognitive learning and behavioral development; and embraced the idea of 'learning organization' because of its potential to create and sustain competitive advantage in an organization. This book explores the characteristics of a learning organization and examines the relationship of organizational learning and competitive advantage. Petroleum companies of Pakistan were chosen as research environment because of their knowledge intensive, and learning oriented nature. Literature reveled systems thinking, mental models/culture, shared vision/mission, leadership, knowledge/information flow, personal mastery/growth and team learning as antecedents of a learning organization. All characteristics are statistically significant. Shared Vision and Systems Thinking emerged as most significant contributors. It signifies that if the concept of learning organization is instituted with strategic intent can provide a sustainable advantage.
Download or read book Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage written by Bertrand Moingeon and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-08-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `[I}n this volume, contributors from the fields of both strategic management and organizational behaviour have been brought together to explore the relationship between organizational learning and competitive advantage.... In their editorial introduction, Edmonson and Moingeon trace changes within the fields of strategy and organizational development that have encouraged a more integrative approach. On the strategy side, the emergence of the "resource view of the firm" has drawn attention to the importance of firm-specific resources including knowledge and how it is acquired, as sources of competitive advantage. On the other hand, organizational development practitioners have become increasingly interested in relating their traditional tasks more firmly to strategic business issues and concerns. The topic of organizational learning can thus be seen as a bridge, which is the intention of this volume to begin constructing, between these two fields.... The papers presented in this book offer a rich variety of concepts, frameworks and provovative ideas on organizational learning and its strategic implications. In addition, the theoretical presentations are often supported by reports of the results of original research in a number of companies′ - Management Learning `This book takes an important first step towards integrating theories of competitive advantage and... organizational learning, a rapprochement which can come none too soon for the management practitioner′ - Peter Senge, Director of the Center for Organizational Learning, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Organizations need to develop learning strategies to survive and develop in increasingly uncertain and changing markets. In this book, researchers from Europe and the United States explore theories of strategic management and organizational behaviour to establish a link between learning processes and competitive advantage, within a variety of organizational settings. The diverse, multidisciplinary approach takes an important step towards developing a new integrative theory of management.
Download or read book Organizational Learning written by Gilbert Probst and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to remain flexible and gain a lasting competitive advantage, today's organizations need to understand the process of organizational learning, and be able to adapt accordingly. This book provides an overview of the key characteristics of a learning organization, and demonstrates how all organizations can achieve their learning potential. Several case studies in the book are Asea Brown Boveri's training systems, IBM, Volkswagen and Digital Equipment Europe. The book describes obstacles to learning and shows how they can be overcome.
Download or read book Learning Models for Innovation in Organizations Examining Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Human Resources Management written by Soliman, Fawzy and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to strive for a competitive advantage in their industry, organizations have begun achieving innovation through knowledge-driven learning models to ensure that organizational activities are efficient and effective. Learning Models for Innovation in Organizations: Examining Roles of Knowledge Transfer and Human Resources Management provides relevant theoretical frameworks and empirical research findings to enhance knowledge management and learning competencies for organizational activities. This book offers assistance and guidance to managers and professionals of innovation firms, learning organizations, and other work communities through tools, techniques, and strategic suggestions for improvement.
Download or read book Learning with Lean written by James Zurn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The toughest Lean journeys are those taken in organizations that have achieved long-term success. Processes and people become fixed in their ways and exhibit a natural resistance to change. But, regardless of how well your organization is performing, unless you have a sustainable competitive advantage, you are at risk.Examining the performance gap between good organizations and great ones, Learning with Lean: Unleashing the Potential for Sustainable Competitive Advantage explains how to use Lean as a learning vehicle for achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage.Helping you better understand the current state of your organization, the book outlines a series of five simple phases for developing an architecture and implementation plan to transform your organization‘s performance. These five phases fit neatly into a closed-system model that has similarities to the Plan-Do-Check-Act quality model. The model is simple, easy to communicate, and easy to implement Assess, Plan, Prepare, Do, and Learn.Supplies a brief overview of Lean toolsProvides an understanding of the Voice of the Customer as a focusing engineCovers measurement and goal settingIllustrates the dynamics of organizational change Explains how to boost learning through LeanThe authors guide you through the deployment of training and the implementation of new knowledge and skills around Lean. In addition, they also explain how to find and improve on the areas where waste exists so your organization can reinvent the way it learns.Effective management techniques recognize the need for balance, and this book is no different. Helping you pinpoint where those balances and dichotomies exist, it arms you with powerful techniques to manage these challenges and to transform your organization into a change-hungry Lean learni
Download or read book Facilitating Organizational Learning KM written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers explore issues such as the 'learning by doing' capability of the operations function of the trans-national; analysis of inter- and intra-knowledge flow transfers in trans-nationals; strategic variables in knowledge flow transfer and achieving competitive advantage; the effect of 'trust' on knowledge sharing and alternative social capital enablers; how trans-nationals face unique issues that technology can help to alleviate. There is also a review of how a state-owned enterprise with national focus has successfully become a major global player, describing the systemic approach taken,
Download or read book Strategy and Performance written by A. Ghobadian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terms such as the 'new competitive landscape', 'hypercompetition' and 'inherent instability and change' have been used over the past decade to describe the changing global competitive environment. A plethora of strategic and operational measures have been used to enable firms to gain sustainable competitive advantage, with varying degrees of success. Yet we remain in largely uncharted territory with strategic preparation for the future becoming a critical activity. Strategy and Performance provides academics, practitioners and students with a highly focused approach to competing in the global marketplace.
Download or read book Organizational Learning as a Source of Competitive Advantage written by Bertrand Moingeon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Management and Innovation written by Neeru Mundra and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge Management (KM) refers to a range of practices used by organizations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for awareness, learning and reuse across organizations. KM is closely related to organizational learning initiatives. This may be distinguished from organizational learning by emphasizing on the management of specific knowledge assets and development and cultivation of the channels through which knowledge flows. The present paper investigates the vital link between management of knowledge in organizations, innovations in which an organization may involve KM and the development of a sustainable competitive advantage. Various hypotheses have been formulated to know whether KM and competitive advantage are interrelated or not. Innovation in the product and services are done by various organizations but in this paper the authors have tried to study whether the innovation in KM is critical for the success of an organization or not. The paper also provides practical implications for creating a competitive advantage in modern firms. KM covers a wide range of functionalities, support and different sets of activities where organizations have to keep a check on various departments. Therefore, to achieve this research objective, the authors study the sharing of best practices and knowledge of employees in different areas of organization.
Download or read book Strategic Learning written by Willie Pietersen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use Strategic Learning to rapidly respond to change and gain a sustainable advantage over your competitors What's even harder than creating a breakthrough strategy? Making it stick. As companies are fighting to survive in a tough economy, this new book by Willie Pietersen demonstrates the power of the Strategic Learning process, a four-step dynamic cycle guaranteed to create and sustain winning performance. Adopted by a wide range of corporations and not-for-profit organizations, the Strategic Learning process builds on eight years of practicing, adapting and honing the original concepts Pietersen first introduced in Reinventing Strategy to explain how organizations can generate superior insights about their customers and competitors, craft a Winning Proposition, focus on a vital few key priorities, create buy-in throughout the organization and achieve success – again and again. Teaches organizations to make smarter decisions that help them win customers and earn superior profits Explains how to instill a culture of openness, learning, and courage that can face and respond to the constantly changing business environment Is a tool that can benefit leaders at all levels, in organizations both large and small, global and domestic, for-profit and not-for-profit Author Willie Pietersen, a former president of Tropicana and Seagram USA, is a professor of management at Columbia Business School, and the author of Reinventing Strategy, from Wiley Strategic Learning shows you how your business or nonprofit organization can develop better, more effective strategies for long-term competitive advantage.
Download or read book OPERATIONS STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY PURSUING THE COMPETITIVE EDGE written by Robert Hayes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: Management; Graduate students of operation management Special Features: · AUTHOR RECOGNITION: Dr. Robert Hayes, Emeritus, Harvard Business School, is the most recognizable academic authority in the field of Operations Management. He is the author and co-author of numerous trade and college books. His Wiley book, Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing has sold 60,000 copies, and is now in its 15th printing. It was chosen by The American Association of Publishers in 1984 as the best business book on business, management and economics. His article with William Abernathy, Managing Our Way Toward an Economic Decline is generally regarded as the most widely read reprint article in the history of Harvard Business Review.· PREVIOUS TRACK RECORD: Robert Hayes has co-authored two successful hybrid trade/college books. In 1984, he authored Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing (60,000 sold, of which approximately 20,000 were sold to the college market). In 1990 he was the lead author of Dynamic Manufacturing, for Free Press, (55,000 sold)· AUTHOR PROMOTION: Dr. Hayes maintains an excellent relationship with top executives at Hewlett-Packard, Canton Timken and other Fortune 500 companies, and he will send them complimentary copies to stimulate bulk purchases. Also, the authors will promote the book both to the Production Management Society and The Decision Science Institute. In addition, Dr. Upton will use the text in his executive education courses at Harvard Business School.· COLLEGE MARKET: This book will be strongly considered as the course book for the graduate level operations management course at the top-flight colleges and universities. About The Book: Hayes is a founder of the Operations Strategy field, and all four authors are on the Harvard Business School faculty. In Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge--the long-awaited follow-up to the highly successful classic, Restoring Our Competitive Edge--Bob Hayes, Gary Pisano, Dave Upton, and Steve Wheelwright take a fresh look at the foundations of corporate success. This book addresses the basic principles that guide the development of a powerful operations organization, and describes how a company's operating and technological resources can be applied to create a sustainable competitive advantage in today's new (global and IT-intensive) economy. Achieving a competitive advantage through superior operations is what the authors refer to as the operations edge.
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Competitive Advantage Issues and Potential Solutions written by Chilton, Michael A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines current research in support of knowledge management by focusing on how knowledge resources can be used to create and sustain competitive advantages, combining imitation and innovation theories"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Building a Learning Organization written by Donald H Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To compete in today's business world, companies need to be learning organizations. This means not only ensuring that staff have the correct knowledge and skills to meet business goals, but also that the business has an awareness of new products, services and processes in the external business environment and learns what impact these will have on their company. Building a Learning Organization is a practical guide for learning and development (L&D) professionals to help them move beyond delivering training to embedding learning at every level of the business. It covers what it means to be a learning organization, what learning organizations do differently, how to become one and most importantly, how to stay one. Building a Learning Organization includes in-depth coverage of models of organizational learning and guidance on how to capture and transfer learning to ensure company growth and competitive advantage. Packed with case studies from global learning organizations including Google, Facebook, NHS, Fujitsu and Qantas, L&D professionals will understand what really works and how they can apply this in their own organizations.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Knowledge Management for Contemporary Business Environments written by Malheiro, Armando and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information is considered essential in every business model, which is why staying abreast of the latest resources can help combat many challenges and aid businesses in creating a synthesis between people and information, keeping up with evolving technologies, and keeping data accurate and secure. The Handbook of Research on Knowledge Management for Contemporary Business Environments is a critical scholarly publication that examines the management of knowledge resources in modern business contexts. Including a wide range of topics such as information systems, sustainable competitive advantage, and knowledge sharing, this publication is a vital reference source for managers, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on strategies that are able to manage the information in more than one context for present and future generations.
Download or read book Doing More with Less written by Anthi Theiopoulou and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sustainable learning organization always has a competitive advantage, and organizational-learning tools can provide businesses of any size with the ability to achieve more with less. This innovation in management is based in science and backed by numerous successful applications. Author Anthi Theiopoulou, MSc, conducted breakthrough research in organizational learning (OL) best practices and the operationalization of OL principles. As a leading international expert, she offers this guide for applying OL to any business and measuring the outcome. This overview is for leaders and researchers from a range of backgrounds. It begins by reviewing management strategies and the most current research on OL. Part two covers each component of OL in greater depth to allow leaders to design and implement their own systems. Part three is a sample OL management system, which is highly customizable, uniquely scalable, and it includes the organizational learning self-evaluation tool-or OLSET-developed by the author at the University of Liverpool. This unique element of the methodology allows leaders to conduct an OL capacity audit. The result of years of experience and research, Doing More with Less turns science into practice. These empirically based guidelines and techniques have the power to make organizations successful in any future.
Download or read book Learning and Performance Matter written by Prem Kumar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning and performing profoundly affect our results and actions. Yet getting the balance right is a challenge to individuals and organisations. While performing is about meeting the demands placed upon us, learning expands our capacity to meet future demands. Everyday successes and failures are shaped by the way we balance learning and performing. More than just actions, balance involves a set of values that are fundamental to the successful operation of organisations. These values are key dimensions around which organisational cultures form. Unfortunately, achieving balance is like a dance going wrong in organisations around the world: we have been following the same pattern for so long that we are now struggling to establish better ways of going about it.This intriguing book is a collection of essays from leading consultants, practitioners and scholars offering practical approaches, fresh insights and strategies to proposed solutions for sustained organisational growth and competitive advantage. The book explains the nature of the learning and performance OC danceOCO and its importance to organisations today, and is an indispensable resource for managing the dilemmas and tensions faced by individuals and organisations.
Download or read book Competitive Advantage written by Cam Caldwell and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As firms struggle in the modern era to achieve financial success, many recognize that a global economy has made their task more challenging than ever before. Universal access to the latest information and the ability to duplicate technological capabilities make it difficult for firms to sustain previously existing competitive advantages.Business leaders understand that the challenges that they face require a new and much more behavioral approach to managing their companies than has been successful in the past. In this volume, we address the quest for success in a world where innovation and constant change threaten the status quo.Today's successful leaders recognize the importance of creating organizational cultures that build trust, treat employees as valued partners, and provide those employees with the resources to constantly learn.Emphasizing a value-based and behavioral approach to managing employees, many of the chapters of this book address the importance of a strategic approach that is committed to both organizational excellence and the best interests of a company's employees.Nearly eighty years ago, Chester Barnard emphasized that successful organizations both pursue a worthy purpose that benefits society and strive to satisfy the individual needs of its membership. This volume endorses the importance that successful organizations today are committed to values that inspire others, work for the best interests of the global community, and demonstrate a commitment to constant improvement.The theme of this volume is that competitive advantage can best be achieved by leaders and companies that are constantly learning, looking for more effective and efficient ways to assist customers, and those who are dedicated to innovation and the pursuit of excellence.
